Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 636 470 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.85% 14.01% 9.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.53% 52.87% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 450 359 285
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,950
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,375 £73,250 £77,300
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,367 889 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.87% 26.50% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 959 642 599
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,638 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,762
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -1.91%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +1 202 £59,000 +7.27% 98
Essex -4 145 £40,000 - 67
Cambridgeshire -17 131 £55,000 +57.14% 97
Suffolk +31 73 £34,750 -30.50% 33
Norfolk -2 57 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Bedfordshire -20 27 £38,250 +12.50% 29
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 108 (16.98%) SharePoint
2 53 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.73%) WordPress
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) IIS
5 3 (0.47%) SAS
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.31%) Confluence
6 2 (0.31%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 41 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.31%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 205 (32.23%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (19.18%) Entra ID
3 86 (13.52%) Power Platform
4 80 (12.58%) Azure AI
5 74 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (11.01%) AWS
7 65 (10.22%) OneDrive
8 33 (5.19%) PowerApps
9 32 (5.03%) Power Automate
10 27 (4.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (3.93%) GitHub
12 22 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (3.14%) GCP
14 17 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (2.67%) SaaS
15 16 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.95%) Firewall
2 68 (10.69%) DNS
3 53 (8.33%) DHCP
4 52 (8.18%) VPN
5 38 (5.97%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.83%) Wireless
7 15 (2.36%) MQTT
8 12 (1.89%) VLAN
9 11 (1.73%) Internet
9 11 (1.73%) Network Security
9 11 (1.73%) VoIP
9 11 (1.73%) WAN
10 10 (1.57%) LAN
11 8 (1.26%) PBX
12 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.63%) DMZ
13 4 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.47%) Broadband
15 2 (0.31%) SSL
15 2 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (15.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 65 (10.22%) Power BI
3 56 (8.81%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.56%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.09%) Tableau
6 24 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.63%) MySQL
11 3 (0.47%) Metadata
11 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.31%) Big Data
12 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (3.46%) Git
2 11 (1.73%) JIRA
3 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.63%) Selenium
5 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.47%) git-flow
5 3 (0.47%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) JMeter
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 291 (45.75%) Social Skills
2 60 (9.43%) Finance
3 26 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.20%) Legal
5 13 (2.04%) Marketing
5 13 (2.04%) Retail
6 12 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (1.89%) Law
7 11 (1.73%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.42%) Games
10 6 (0.94%) Advertising
11 5 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.47%) Aviation
13 3 (0.47%) Banking
14 2 (0.31%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 149 (23.43%) Developer
2 112 (17.61%) IT Support
3 92 (14.47%) Analyst
4 82 (12.89%) .NET Developer
5 79 (12.42%) Support Engineer
6 77 (12.11%) IT Engineer
7 66 (10.38%) Senior
8 65 (10.22%) IT Support Engineer
9 58 (9.12%) Junior
10 53 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
11 33 (5.19%) Lead
12 32 (5.03%) Network Engineer
13 31 (4.87%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (4.72%) Security Analyst
15 28 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (4.40%) Graduate
16 27 (4.25%) Consultant
17 26 (4.09%) Data Analyst
18 25 (3.93%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (18.55%) .NET
2 95 (14.94%) .NET Core
3 78 (12.26%) ASP.NET
4 77 (12.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 58 (9.12%) CSS
6 56 (8.81%) RESTful
7 53 (8.33%) HTML
8 35 (5.50%) Entity Framework
9 34 (5.35%) React
10 30 (4.72%) ML.NET
11 28 (4.40%) Blazor
11 28 (4.40%) Node.js
12 24 (3.77%) Terraform
13 22 (3.46%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (3.14%) Vue
16 18 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
17 17 (2.67%) FastAPI
17 17 (2.67%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (2.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 30 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.77%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.10%) CCTV
11 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.10%) iPhone
12 6 (0.94%) Digital TV
12 6 (0.94%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.94%) PKI
12 6 (0.94%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.79%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 156 (24.53%) Windows
2 88 (13.84%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.52%) Linux
4 14 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.89%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.73%) Android
8 9 (1.42%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.31%) Unix
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (21.38%) AI
2 126 (19.81%) Cybersecurity
3 121 (19.03%) Agile
4 97 (15.25%) DevOps
5 94 (14.78%) Mentoring
6 89 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (12.11%) CI/CD
8 77 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 53 (8.33%) Machine Learning
11 42 (6.60%) Roadmaps
12 40 (6.29%) Cloud Security
12 40 (6.29%) Service Delivery
13 39 (6.13%) Computer Science
14 37 (5.82%) Migration
15 36 (5.66%) Containerisation
15 36 (5.66%) ITIL
16 35 (5.50%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 193 (30.35%) SQL
2 144 (22.64%) C#
3 101 (15.88%) Python
4 57 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 55 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 40 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.99%) PHP
8 14 (2.20%) C++
9 10 (1.57%) Java
10 9 (1.42%) Bicep
11 8 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.10%) Rust
13 4 (0.63%) Bash
13 4 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.47%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.31%) Go
16 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (23.11%) Azure Certification
2 77 (12.11%) Degree
3 38 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (4.87%) CompTIA Security+
5 30 (4.72%) CCNA
6 28 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (4.25%) Network+ Certification
8 24 (3.77%) CEH
8 24 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
9 14 (2.20%) Security Cleared
10 8 (1.26%) CCNP
10 8 (1.26%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.26%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.94%) CISSP
12 5 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.47%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.47%) CCSK
13 3 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.72%) QA
2 26 (4.09%) SLA
3 25 (3.93%) GDPR
4 22 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.83%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.20%) NIST
7 13 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.26%) NCSC
9 7 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.79%) GRC
11 5 (0.79%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.63%) PMO
13 3 (0.47%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.16%) HL7
14 1 (0.16%) IFRS
14 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (22.33%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.97%) Docker
2 38 (5.97%) Hyper-V
3 31 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.94%) SCCM
4 5 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.47%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 445 (69.97%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.32%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.70%) Cisco
4 36 (5.66%) VMware
5 26 (4.09%) Apple
6 21 (3.30%) Google
7 14 (2.20%) Adobe
8 13 (2.04%) Facebook
8 13 (2.04%) Meraki
9 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.57%) Ubiquiti
9 10 (1.57%) Veeam
10 7 (1.10%) Databricks
10 7 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.10%) SonicWALL
11 5 (0.79%) Sony
11 5 (0.79%) Yahoo!
12 4 (0.63%) Citrix
12 4 (0.63%) SAP
12 4 (0.63%) Sophos